In How to Think Seriously About The Planet by Roger Scruton and That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis, both novels mention a similar point of government policies and the issues that come along with power, therefore causing society to fall due to the control and manipulation. Specifically, in Chapter 8 of That Hideous Strength, Frost is discussing the powers of NICE and their intentions with Mark, in which it was unclear to Mark how corrupt and controlling NICE really was. Frost exploits this when he says, “That is merely a proposition about the state of your own body at the moment. If you please, I will go on to give you the necessary information. I must begin by telling you that neither the Deputy Director, nor I, are responsible for shaping the policy of the Institute” (Lewis 253). This passage describes how NICE has secret plans and secret people in charge, that are hidden from the public and from Mark. The control that NICE has is almost unknown to the public, to the point of society becoming brainwashed. This type of power shows how societies can be easily manipulated by people of power/governments. This is related to the point that Roger Scruton makes in his novel, where he points out the importance of conservatism and how too much say from the government causes problems. Specifically, he discusses environmental issues. This is displayed when Scruton writes, “When it comes to environmental policy… The worst thing that can happen is that the left-wing movements and their mobilized spokesmen should prevail. The best thing is that ordinary people, motivated by old-fashioned oikophilia, should volunteer to localize the problem, and then try to solve it. If they are losing the habit of doing this, it is in part because governments, responding to pressure groups and activists, have progressively confiscated the duties of the citizens, and poured them down the drain of regulation.” (Scruton 251-52). In this passage, Scruton describes how a left-winged government attempts to control environmental issues and mentions “oikophilia”, which is the love of home. This passage shows the point of how governments tend to police and control these issues, which leads to a corrupt situation involving unsolved environmental issues. It becomes more political than it needs to be, which stops people from actually solving the environmental issues because the government plays too big of a role in it. Overall, both these passages portray the issues that can occur when government/groups in power have too much control, which ends up destroying society and does not solve any important issues.